Recent content by doccutter

Hi all, I'm traveling to a site of extremely shaky electricity, but lots of sun. I'm hoping to bring a solar panel to charge necessities like GH4 batteries and phones. I found a 10W folding solar panel that provides power via USB. Anyone know of a way to charge gh4 batteries via USB? Thanks!

In terms of the dr and overall shot quality, the problem I'm having is massive noise in any dark area. The following screen cap is from my gh4, cinelike D, 200 ISO, sharpness -5, all other settings default. I don't really understand why the image is so noisy. Is there a way to suppress noise in...

Trading the Expresscard slot for an SD slot? WTF? How are we going to cobble something together for P2 with these things? http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/apple-announces-new-macbook-pro-at-wwdc-2009/

Ok folks, I'm really sorry if this is a repost, but I did try the search feature, but didn't come up with anything. The LCD panel on my HVX is trashed, it's cracked in multiple places and unviewable. Does anyone know the cost, time of replacement? I'm pretty handy, so if there's a way for me to...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/nab07-sony-xdcam-ex-camcorder-plays-follow-the-leader-252458.php Seems there's a new sony expresscard flash-based camcorder to compete with the HVX due soon. 1080P. etc.

Hey Folks, does anyone know of a preferably shareware program that will read timecode off of firewire? All I want is a large window that ticks off the timecode coming off the HVX in a live feed, since I can't get the HVX to output timecode over s-video while recording. Any ideas? The key is the...

Well, I thought since a number of us are unhappy with the DVCPROHD codec's handling of bright reds, it would be useful to figure out a method using only FCP to clean up the red channel aliasing. It seems that one could use shake or AE, but I'd rather figure it out inside FCP. Unfortunately, my...

Has anyone tried this? I just saw this on apple's site: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/cameratoquicktime.html It says you can record direct to quicktime without running any other software. I'm going to try on my new MBPC2D tonight... I'll try with 1080i24PA.

Hey folks, Pretty much since I've bought this camera 3 months ago, I've been shooting almost daily on a documentary in the Middle East. Well, now that I'm home and can look at the footage critically, I can see a few problems with the footage. The noise is there, but that's been hashed and...

OK, so today I took my powerbook to work, and connected a cinema display to the DVI out to consider the display's viability as a production monitor. It was truly a lovely experience, the HVX footage really shines on a large display like that. My question is, it there any way to calibrate a...

Hey folks, I'm selling my Century Optix 1.6 Teleconverter for the HVX 200. I opened the box, shot with it once, and haven't used it since. No scratches, like new condition. It's 850 on BH, I'll do... say 750. I also have a portrabrace DV organizer case I'm looking to sell. Thanks!

Hey folks, does anyone know why I would be getting exclamation points on longer clips when I shift the hvx to playback mode? They transfer and play in FCP fine, but I'm wondering what the camera is trying to tell me. Thanks!

Hi Folks, I was wondering, if the HVX is in film cam mode, 720p24, what should I set the shutter angle to to compensate for the 50Hz tungstens? I want to avoid nasty flickers...

Hey folks, I'm trying to mix HD and DV sources, all shot on the HVX. The HD is 720Pn, that works fine. The DV is advanced pulldown 480i, anamorphic. When I try to capture using the advanced pulldown option in the capture settings, I get 1 of 2 results: Dropped frame warnings, or the full clip...

Hey folks, do any of y'all have a portabrace for your hvx? I'm hoping to pick one up this week. Also, have any of you tried the quickslick for the hvx? It comes with one of the cases, and I was hoping for input, specifically on it's dust protection. Thanks!